Is there a way of cutting multiple of holes, all in one process? This job gets to be time-consuming if you have a lot of holes cut inside a 3d structural channel for example.
Is there a quicker way to cut many holes at once through a Solid? I know you can do it with parametrics, which is not an option for me.
thanks.
v8i SS 10
Hi Abel,
Yes, there are several ways to go about this:
Option 1 - Cut Solid by Curves
Demo:
Option 2 - Subtract Solids
As an additional bit of information, a method which I employ when required to cut a mass amount of holes at once is to join all the cutting elements together with another solid which intersects the cutting elements.
You might wonder why you would want to do something like that given the already demonstrated methods? Well, simply for reasons when you have to push MicroStation to its limits and punching holes takes a massive amount of time and the Parasolid 3D Modeling kernel is struggling to cope and no doubt screaming "No more!!!" inside.
Something like this:
The panels are shared cells to improve performance but simply modelling a single panel took ages to cut all the holes. Not fun but the time was minimised cutting them all at once where I could at least leave it calculate instead of doing 1 at a time.
Nice Model! Back in my V8i days I had to make a large number of holes in a weir baffle. Individual punches brought MS to its knees. Brein Bastings advised me to use a Feature Model with a hole array. That made a huge performance difference. I have no idea though if these parametric objects in Connect behave the same way performance wise to the old feature model objects, or if they are capable of creating a hole array along a circular shell object as you show in your example...
I've no idea to be honest, I never touch parametric solids as the one time I did investigate them I found the implementation to be poor and functionality extremely limited compared to non-parametric solids and its tools. Had it worked a more like 3DS Max's Modifier Stack or the equivalent in Blender, it might have been better. Has it improved in the years since then? Again, no idea but I doubt it going by some of the parametric threads on CONNECT that I've seen posted.
In my experience MicroStation is a good solids modeller but does struggle with lots of holes in an element. You can however build quite complex models with lots of non-parametric geometry. This example is a 3D PDF, if you aren't familiar with them, make the following changes to your Adobe Acrobat Reader before opening the PDF otherwise it won't display correctly:
/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/Abbey-Wood-3D.pdf
Steve Hipp said:Nice Model!
I agree. Good explanation, with illustrations, of 3D workflow as well.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
Very nice indeed. especially in "Transparent" Render-Mode. Thanks for the settings. They work also in Adobe Reader.